mobi ¹ doc If The Dead Rise Not 9781847249425 ¶ Philip Kerr

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mobi ¹ doc If The Dead Rise Not 9781847249425 ¶ Philip Kerr ¶ An instant classic in the Bernie Gunther series with storytelling that is fresher and vivid than ever Berlin 1934 The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance Hitler and Avery Brundage the head of the US OlTive peace But Bernie discovers that he truly cannot outrun the burden of his past He soon collides with a vicious killer from his Berlin days who is mysteriously murdered not long afterward and an old lover who may be the murderer If the Dead Rise Not is everything fans have come to expect from Philip Kerr twisted intrigue tight plotting uick witted one liners a hang by your thumbs ending and most significant a richer wiser Bernie Gunthe It almost hurts to give a Philip Kerr novel three out of five stars but given how much I have liked the other novels in the Bernie Gunther series it was harder still to give this book a higher ratingAnd it all boiled down to two major issues I had with this novelThe book was divided into two parts The first part takes place in 1934 in Berlin and finds Gunther dealing with American gangsters a beautiful journalist corrupt Nazis oppressed Jews and washed up boxers The story rattles along at a great pace but then ends in a strangely uniue but almost unbelievable way before making way to the second part of the book which takes place in 1954 in Cuba My problem was with the fact that the two stories really have nothing to do with each other except that a few of the survivors from part one limp into part two in what amounts to an almost unbelievable coincidence I enjoyed both stories especially the first part which was a bit visceral but didn't like how Kerr tried to make one relevant to the other It was like he had two separate Bernie Gunther stories in mind then due to his publisher putting pressure on him or the need to spew forth something before the Christmas holidays he mixed and matched the storylines into one less credible pieceProblem number two is with the overall ending Usually Kerr has a neatly packaged little twist that comes as a complete surprise to the reader but this book ends with little than a sad attempt at not one but two plot twisters; neither of which are all that surprising or unexpectedFor all my complaining I still love Bernie Gunther Philip Kerr and this novel had some great scenes and characters surrounding the protagonist I especially love how drab and grey Kerr portrays Nazi Germany and can find little fault with the writer's ability to transport the reader to that very difficult time I can only hope he can transport us back to when the next Bernie Gunther novel was as exciting as the last